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Hivernage

Hivernage

Gavron, Laurence

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 2702434487
ISBN13: 9782702434482
Publisher: Le Masque
Published: Sep 16 2009
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: French

RAINY SEASON

In the midst of the rainy season, or African monsoon, Dakar is stifling. When the rain falls, sudden, explosive and vigorous, the city comes alive, revigorated, and children splash in the puddles.
During one of these games, a child discovers a strange object in the gutter: a severed, bloody penis. Laughter mixes with embarrassment and disgust until the children finally decide to alert commissioner Jules-Souleymane Faye. Faye begins an investigation that will lead him from Dakar to Louga, desert lands in the furthest reaches of the country. En route he comes across a stunning African woman raised in France, Léocady, a free-spirited, open-minded artist, her lover Bokar, the young chief-of-staff of a large daily newspaper, and Mariama, wife of an immigrant, one of the numerous women who only see their husband once every two or three years because they have left to earn a living for their family in Europe.
Far from the metropolis of Dakar, Jules-Souleymane will soon discover a different reality of his country.

Laurence Gavron is in Dakar where she is a documentary filmmaker. She writes regulary for the local press and has exposed her photography several times in Senegal.

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